The Greatest Three Words of Advice for Any Entrepreneur!

I don’t care what tales and stories you hear of entrepreneurs coming up with the perfect idea at the perfect time.

Most such tales are just that. Millionaires aren’t typically created overnight and they don’t automatically or magically appear when an Internet company goes public.

So to suggest that a great piece of entrepreneurial advice and wisdom can be boiled down into three tiny words is really ridiculous in many ways.

I don’t mean to trivialize the great labor it is to think of, design, and create a small solo business.

This is simply a fun little exercise to see how short and simple I can make a great business principle become. If I had to give you my best shot at the shortest, most succinct, most “to the point” bit of condensed wisdom I could come up with I would steal a slogan from another business.

I would steal the famous Nike phrase “Just do it!”

When you think about those words and what they mean to an entrepreneur creating and starting a business, you come up with all kinds of thoughts about what it takes to become successful.

Here are some of the business principles and tips that the phrase brings to my mind:

Get started right now

Gather courage and strength

Don’t let others talk you out of giving your dream idea a shot

Stop procrastinating and get down to doing what it takes right now

Take the risk and attempt something that may seem nearly impossible

Study things all you want; but there comes a time when you have to implement

Execution of a business plan is more important than the plan itself

Persistence over the long haul overcomes a grundle of mistakes and bad choices

When you fail or “bomb” in a product offering or strategy, learn from it and quickly move on

If you own a solo business, you are the business … there’s no one else to blame or take responsibility for it

“If it is to be, it is up to me”

Sometimes the most important key to business is momentum – doing something

Forget excuses and all the reasons for failing and move forward

Challenges and obstacles are a part of business life; accept them, meet them head on, and figure out a way to get beyond them

Experiment and try new things in product development, business execution, marketing, and customer relations

Every time you fail, you have discovered a strategy or method to avoid

90% of what you need to start is there when you just “show up”

Difficult things become easy when you do them over and over again

Friends, family, and strangers will tell you what you can’t do – ignore them

The darkest hour comes just before daybreak – when you want to quit, just keep persisting

I’m sure you can think of other principles that come to mind from the phrase “just do it!” Why not add a comment to this post and let’s see how many more great ideas we can come up with.